Re: Checking for MDIO phy address 0

2016-11-28 Thread Phil Endecott
Hi Florian, Florian Fainelli wrote: On 11/28/2016 10:53 AM, Phil Endecott wrote: Anyway, my reason for this message is to suggest a runtime diagnostic message somewhere if address 0 is used - this could have saved me a lot of work! If someone can suggest the right place to add this I can pre

Re: Checking for MDIO phy address 0

2016-11-28 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 11/28/2016 10:53 AM, Phil Endecott wrote: > Dear Experts, > > Is it true that phy address 0 is special, and should not be used? It is special in that it can be made special, or not (very helpful, I know). AFAIR, address 0 was defined a while ago (by Cisco) to be a special broadcast address whi